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CRUCES CREATIVES

EIN 81-5340614 LAS CRUCES, NM

Revenue 2023
$1,032,615
Expenses 2023
$765,153

Program services were 79.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P99
Classification
1238
Street
205 E LOHMAN AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

CRUCES CREATIVES WORKS TO FOSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, FURTHER EDUCATION, SUPPORT THE ARTS, PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT, STRENGTHEN SOCIAL CONNECTIONS, AND ADVANCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BY CONNECTING PEOPLE WITH THE TOOLS, TRAINING AND COMMUNITY TO MAKE PRACTICALLY ANYTHING.

Activities or mission (Part I)

MAKERSPACE COMMITTED TO FOSTERING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, FURTHERING EDUCATION, SUPPORTING THE ARTS, PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT, STRENGTHENING SOCIAL CONNECTIONS, AND ADVANCING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN DONA ANA COUNTY.

  • PROVIDE A WORK SPACE FOR PEOPLE IN DONA ANA COUNTY TO EXPLORE CREATIVE ENDEAVORS AND LEARN NEW SKILLS BY HOSTING SKILL-BUILDING CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS FOR THE COMMUNITY AND LEADING STEM AND ARTS EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN THROUGH COMMUNITY SCHOOLS PROGRAM AND PROVIDE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROVIDING JOBS IN TECHNICAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CREATIVE ARTS ARENAS.

    Expenses $591,543

  • THROUGH THE JOB SHOP, CRUCES CREATIVES OFFERED DESIGN AND FABRICATION SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS WHILE PROVIDING EMPLOYMENT AND ON THE JOB TRAINING, ESPECIALLY TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD DIFFICULTY FINDING EMPLOYMENT. THIS PROMOTES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ADVANCED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND PROMOTES PRACTICAL EDUCATION IN DONA ANA COUNTY.

    Expenses $15,358

  • WITH SUPPORT FROM FOUNDATIONS, CRUCES CREATIVES LED THE SEEDING REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE PROJECT WHICH ORGANIZED PEER-TO-PEER KNOWLEDGE SHARING AND DEVELOPED TECHNOLOGIES TO HELP NEW MEXICO FARMERS AND RANCHERS IMPLEMENT MORE SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES AS WELL AS OTHER SMALL FOUNDATION GRANT FUNDED PROJECTS. CRUCES CREATIVES DEVELOPED WORKING PROTOTYPES FOR SEVERAL TECHNOLOGIES THAT ARE CURRENTLY BEING FIELD TESTED.

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • LEA WISE-SURGUY

    PRESIDENT& ED

    Total calculated
    $23,792
    From this org
    $23,792
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • PATRICK DESIMIO

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $19,678
    From this org
    $19,678
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • JON SIMMONS

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $16,056
    From this org
    $16,056
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    13

  • MARGARET NEILL

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • JEFF MOORE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • MICHAEL HARRIS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RAY SCHNEIDER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,032,615
    Expenses
    $765,153
    Contributions
    $252,672
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $434,707
    Expenses
    $464,010
    Contributions
    $249,335
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $339,052
    Expenses
    $350,930
    Assets (EOY)
    $56,851

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $288,746
    Expenses
    $287,652
    Assets (EOY)
    $40,808

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $203,601
    Expenses
    $212,763
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,118

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $74,720
    Expenses
    $62,717
    Assets (EOY)
    $46,097

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2017

Tax period
1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017
Principal officer
Lea Wise-Surguy
Mailing address
625 Loomis RdLas Cruces NM 88007
Website
crucescreatives.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.